European Tax Awards 2017: Winners announced

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Over 30 different firms and individuals won recognition for their unique achievements at this year’s European Tax Awards 2017 held at The Savoy, London.

Deloitte showed the greatest strength and depth in its
international tax practice throughout Europe to win the
European Tax Firm of the Year and Transfer Pricing awards on
May 18. The firm also won a number of national awards for its
innovative work and tailored advice to clients.

Vieira de Almeida & Associados won the European Court of
Justice Firm of the Year, while Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
was named the European Tax Disputes Firm of the Year.

WTS Global won European Indirect Tax Firm of the Year.

This year's Editor's Choice award was won by the European
Commission's Margrethe Vestager, for her phenomenal efforts to
get multinationals paying their fair share of tax.

The awards were presented at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel on
May 18. They consisted of national trophies for the best tax
and transfer pricing firms in 27 jurisdictions; regional
categories, such as for tax policy and compliance &
reporting; and deal awards focusing on the leading matters in a
number of industry sectors and practice areas such as M&A,
capital markets, media & entertainment and technology &
telecommunications.

The European Tax Awards have taken place annually since 2005
and seek to recognise the leading international tax
professionals from around Europe and South Africa.

To win, firms composed a 500-word description of their
objectives for the 2016 calendar year and how they were
achieved, highlighting areas where the work done by the team
made a significant impact on the overall goals of the
company.

Methodology

Between December 2016 and February 2017, law firms, tax
advisers, accountants and other tax service providers from the
following jurisdictions submitted three examples of their best
work for consideration for the national tax and transfer
pricing awards:

The awards for European Tax Firm of the Year, European
Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year, US Tax Firm of the Year in
Europe and Best Newcomer (international tax practices of <5
years) were judged from these submissions.

There were separate submission forms for the European
regional awards covering tax disputes, indirect tax, tax
compliance and reporting, innovation and tax technology.

The awards were judged according to:

Size (Not
conclusive, though it does indicate what a tax team is
capable of taking on);

Innovation (Did
the advice the firm gave show something more than the
straightforward answer that is commonly used? Did the matter
address tax issues that were out of the ordinary and what
ingenuity did the firm show to solve them?); and

Impact (What
effect did the matter have on the client's business? Was it
transformative? What has the conclusion of the matter enabled
the client to achieve?